Implications of measures of reliability for theories of priming: Activity in semantic memory is inherently noisy and uncoordinated

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 284-336

  Stolz, Jennifer A ^a   Besner, Derek ^a   Carr, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUTOMATISM; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 85047690028     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000030A     Document Type: Article

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